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Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal



On Saturday, April 18, 2020 07:00:53 AM David wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> > I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key.
> > But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help".
> > Obviously its stored in a file. Where?

> * so if a user runs multiple shells, each shell exit will overwrite the
> existing history file, the result is that only the last shell to exit will
> have its history
> preserved, and the history of the others will be lost.

But, if you want / need to preserve the history from several terminals, there 
are ways to do it, for example, set a different $HISTFILE for each terminal.


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